Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress, 2nd Session, Volumen3,Parte2 |
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... Buffalo for 5 cents a bushel , and from Buffalo to New York for 10 cents a bushel , as it was done through the month of August last , we find that there is 15 cents for fif- teen hundred miles of water navigation , which covers the ...
... Buffalo for 5 cents a bushel , and from Buffalo to New York for 10 cents a bushel , as it was done through the month of August last , we find that there is 15 cents for fif- teen hundred miles of water navigation , which covers the ...
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... Buffalo , as well as the canal - tolls . That , at its lowest , we will say is but one ceut per bushel for a hundred miles of lake and canal trans- portation . The lakes furnish ample room for navigation ; no " monopoly " on them . The ...
... Buffalo , as well as the canal - tolls . That , at its lowest , we will say is but one ceut per bushel for a hundred miles of lake and canal trans- portation . The lakes furnish ample room for navigation ; no " monopoly " on them . The ...
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... Buffalo , and one at Buffalo , making five during those three hundred miles , and I think that they are so arranged that when they stand upon the side track and the passenger- trains have passed them , going west , then the freight ...
... Buffalo , and one at Buffalo , making five during those three hundred miles , and I think that they are so arranged that when they stand upon the side track and the passenger- trains have passed them , going west , then the freight ...
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... through from Chicago to New York . That arose from the fact that the lake rates from Chicago to Buffalo depend upon the fluctuating demand for transportation . They 3 T TRANSPORTATION TO THE SEABOARD . 33 By Mr. CONKLING: ...
... through from Chicago to New York . That arose from the fact that the lake rates from Chicago to Buffalo depend upon the fluctuating demand for transportation . They 3 T TRANSPORTATION TO THE SEABOARD . 33 By Mr. CONKLING: ...
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... Buffalo depend upon the fluctuating demand for transportation . They will sometimes not only vary day by day , but hourly through the day . If there happens to be a large influx of vessels brought in by a favor- able wind the rates will ...
... Buffalo depend upon the fluctuating demand for transportation . They will sometimes not only vary day by day , but hourly through the day . If there happens to be a large influx of vessels brought in by a favor- able wind the rates will ...
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Página 250 - ... freight or cars or unjust discrimination in relation thereto be deemed and taken in all courts of this state as prima facie evidence that the rates therein fixed are reasonable and just maximum rates of charges for the transportation of freight and cars upon the railroads...
Página 661 - This applies to the case of a road, a canal, or a railway. These are always, in a great degree, practical monopolies ; and a government which concedes such monopoly unreservedly to a private company, does much the same thing as if it allowed an individual or an association to levy any tax they chose, for their own benefit, on all the malt produced in the country, or on all the cotton imported into it.
Página 486 - That the governor of this state be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing resolutions to each of the senators and representatives in congress from this state.
Página 661 - It is perhaps necessary to remark, that the state may be the proprietor of canals or railways without itself working them; and that they will almost always be better worked by means of a company, renting the railway or canal for a limited period from the state.
Página 327 - Such notice must state the time and place of the meeting, and its object, and the amount to which it is proposed to increase the capital stock. The proceedings of such meeting must be entered on the minutes of the proceedings of the company, and thereupon the capital...
Página 250 - The railroad and warehouse commissioners are hereby directed to make, for each of the railroad corporations doing business in this State, as soon as practicable, a schedule of reasonable maximum rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight and cars on each of said railroads...
Página 661 - There are many cases in which the agency, of whatever nature, by which a service is performed, is certain, from the nature of the case, to be virtually single ; in which a practical monopoly, with all the power it confers of taxing the community, cannot be prevented from existing.
Página xx - An act to promote the development of the mining resources of the United States...
Página 661 - But in the many analogous cases which it is best to resign to voluntary agency, the community needs some other security for the fit performance of the service than the interest of the managers; and it is the part of government, either to subject the business to reasonable conditions for the general advantage, or to retain such power over it that the profits of the monopoly may at least be obtained for the public.
Página 250 - Provided, that the schedules thus prepared shall not be taken as prima facie evidence as herein provided until schedules shall have been prepared and published as aforesaid for all the railroad companies now organized under the laws of this State, and until...